Articles and posts from jonwear.com
And then I met Claude Code. It had been out a while but my new job leveraged it a lot and I figured out I might as well get to know the tool. I'd started using it around November of 2025, but not really doing a lot with it. Still writing a lot of code by hand. I would use it and check its outputs and then I would type the code in myself. I just didn't trust it at first. But after a while I…
I could have continued copy/pasting my way through more software projects, but I felt like there had to be a better way. And there was! Turned out that OpenAI had a ChatGPT plugin for Visual Studio that gave you a little chatGPT window that could actually see your code and update it while you watched. This was great! It actually took me closer to what I wanted because I could see it update my code…
I don't know how long this series will go, but I need a way to document how AI is changing the way I work and if I'm honest, the way I think. I'm going to start way back when I was dipping my toe into the AI development world. Compared to what I do today, it feels very primitive. Enough table setting. Here we go... 
 I realized I could at least attempt to use chatGPT to code when I was able to…
When I was 11 years old, writing TI BASIC on my TI-99/4A, I had this idea that I wanted to be able to hide my code. I had invented this scenario where someone might break into my room and load my boring (but coded by me) games from the cassette tape they were saved on. I needed to secure my code, but how? I knew PRINT statements could write to the command line for a user to read something and I…
I've read a lot about how blogging can be helpful to one's career, as well as enjoyable in and of itself. I have no idea who's reading this because I don't have Google Analytics on here or any other analytics ( Website Privacy Report ). I did just add web mentions using webmention.io so I guess there is some tracking, but that's only for users who explicitly reference my content, or I reference…
I use LLMs a lot. I have a paid subscription to OpenAIs chatGPT, Anthropic's Claude Code and an Ollama cloud server. They are fantastic tools. They've certainly helped me ship more code. I've also learned way more about the tech stacks I use. The more I learn the more I realize how silly it is to call myself a senior developer. There are just so many turtles. Anyway, let's get to the danger stuff.…
Continuing with our recipe series, let's go on to one of my favorite meals, the Rib-eye Steak. There are gobs of videos and articles about the best way to cook a steak. For me, the best way to cook it is one that doesn't require lots of time, doesn't make a mess and tastes great. Here's what I've landed on. 
 
 Get a good rib-eye steak, for whatever your definition of good is 
 Let it…
Just to get in the habit of posting again I'm going to post some recipes that I (and the kids) like. I'm usually looking these up and can never quite remember where I store them, so now I have content and a recipe hub. You can find a variety of these "Roman French Toast" recipes on YouTube, but here's how I do it: 
 
 Pour whole milk into a bowl 
 Add whole egg and mix it into the milk…
Baseball is a fun sport to play with from a data modeling point of view because there are so many numbers associated with each game and there are over 150 seasons of baseball stats to look over. A single season has 2,430 individual games. That's at least 131,220 plate appearances per season and don't get me started on the number of pitches, swings, foulballs, etc there are in addition. But let's…
First off, let's so some basic things with text to see if markdown renders it correctly. So far so good. I'll put that in underline ? I want to see what we can strike out . Lastly, I want to see if we can do a link and or an image. The link will be to jonwear.com and the image will be . 
 
 Let's look at quotes and things like that. This is where I'm doing lots of quoting about something…
Where was I? Oh yes. My super simple/fast web server was working. My content was building, it was rendering just like I wanted. Then I asked for a script that would copy the server binary from my local machine to... the server. And it took 4-Evah! 
 Back and forth, forgetting command line args, forgetting the directory, making it way more complicated than it needed to be and it never quite…
This is my first article using my own static blog engine. I'd been using Hugo for quite some time, but I'd go so long between posts that by the time I wanted to post again my templates wouldn't build on Netlify. I thought about going all local with Hugo, but then when trying to select a template I kept coming across templates that didn't work or needed so many other dependencies just to build and…